Alexander Wang Just Made Claw Clips Cool Again

Designers at New York Fashion Week have the uncanny ability to make anything old feel new again. Case in point? Last season scrunchies came back with a vengeance at Mansur Gavriel. This season another newly resurrected hair accessory is making its big return thanks to Alexander Wang: the banana clip, a.k.a. the claw clip.

At his fall 2018 show on Saturday night, the designer sent models out in Matrix-style power suits and bright silver clamp clips made exclusively for the show. "The hair is a take on the power executive of the eighties,” Redken lead hairstylist and creative director Guido Palau said backstage on Saturday. "Alex has done his take on the ironic banana clip of that era."

Designers reviving nostalgic accessories is a refreshing reminder that when you're feeling uninspired by your beauty routine, just take a look at what you already have with new eyes. "I love when something's been around and has a funny connotation," said Palau. "It's like the mullet haircut, which three or four years ago would have been a no-no, now is super cool. I love the way something is reintroduced into fashion, and we look at it again in a different way."